Thing is, there are several locations of Search&Replace: there's one you get when you mark several books and choose Metadata > Edit metadata in bulk, then there's one in Preferences, Common options, Search&Replace, then there's one under Convert books > Bulk convert, Search & Replace. Which one am I supposed to use? I tried them all, and none seem to work. They all leave everything exactly the way it is. (And I want to replace Grzegorz Hordynski with the correct author name, not just remove it from the file. But let me try using your edit first.)
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It populates the Author(s) column correctly, but it does nothing to the file itself. When I look into the zip file created by calibre, that bloody line is still there. It is supposed to be able to change the content of the file. I know, because I read tutorials on MR that show how to remove repeating headers and footers. Why am I not able to change this one bloody line in the html file???
And it doesn't convert all books I selected, just the first one, and renames the fic in an insane fashion - I start with a file in an author folder numbered by the order in which events happen in these six connected fics, and calibre rearranges the order the way it sees fit. When I convert the fic, it renames it to Title by Author - Author.epub. WTF is that?
Just to make my workflow a little clearer, here's the setup of my fandom folders (I'll use Harry Potter as the example):
My fandoms > Harry Potter > Fics > Individual authors > Author folder > Title. html (or number Title.html if they make up a series)
My fandoms > Harry Potter > Fics > Various authors > Author name - Title.html
So I imported the books from the very first author folder, I clicked on Convert books, Bulk convert, went to Search & Replace, entered the offending line, entered text I wanted to replace it with, hit OK and the conversion was done only on first book. The rest were disregarded, and the resulting epub was named Title by Author - Author.epub (Title by Author is the first line of the fic, fllowed by a short synopsis and story word count, and the original link. The fic was downloaded from fanfiction.net)
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:back a while later:
It populates the Author(s) column correctly, but it does nothing to the file itself. When I look into the zip file created by calibre, that bloody line is still there. It is supposed to be able to change the content of the file. I know, because I read tutorials on MR that show how to remove repeating headers and footers. Why am I not able to change this one bloody line in the html file???
And it doesn't convert all books I selected, just the first one, and renames the fic in an insane fashion - I start with a file in an author folder numbered by the order in which events happen in these six connected fics, and calibre rearranges the order the way it sees fit. When I convert the fic, it renames it to Title by Author - Author.epub. WTF is that?
Just to make my workflow a little clearer, here's the setup of my fandom folders (I'll use Harry Potter as the example):
My fandoms > Harry Potter > Fics > Individual authors > Author folder > Title. html (or number Title.html if they make up a series)
My fandoms > Harry Potter > Fics > Various authors > Author name - Title.html
So I imported the books from the very first author folder, I clicked on Convert books, Bulk convert, went to Search & Replace, entered the offending line, entered text I wanted to replace it with, hit OK and the conversion was done only on first book. The rest were disregarded, and the resulting epub was named Title by Author - Author.epub (Title by Author is the first line of the fic, fllowed by a short synopsis and story word count, and the original link. The fic was downloaded from fanfiction.net)